The PID footprint will be expanded to include more of downtown proper. Also, the amount of money commercial property owners are assessed per $100 valuation will increase from 12 cents to 15 cents.

Residents will not see an increase, and continue to pay 9 cents per $100 valuation.

The PID, which the city of San Antonio created in 1999, has been funding downtown maintenance (sidewalk sweeping, litter pick-up, graffiti removal and power washing), landscaping (light pole, sidewalk river access staircase planters) and the Amigos (visitor information).

The expansion will help pay for beautification projects, rebranding of downtown nonprofits, business recruitment and retention, and assistance with city capital projects.

The PID expansion coincides with the restructuring of those downtown nonprofits.

The parent group will be known as Centro San Antonio Inc., registered with the Internal Revenue Service as Downtown San Antonio Community Development Corporation. It will manage the business of Centro Partnership, the Downtown Alliance and the PID.

The realignment is scheduled to be completed in June.

Pat DiGiovanni, currently the CEO of Centro Partnership, would become CEO of the parent group, Centro San Antonio Inc. He and the staff of the Downtown Alliance would be consolidated into the one staff of the parent group.

The PID expansion is expected to reel in $3.8 million from property owners and from side contracts with VIA Metropolitan Transit, Bexar County and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital.

The hospital, for example, is exempt from contributing to the PID, but it has opted in, so that it can benefit from the services.

The city of San Antonio, which owns several buildings within the PID, has to pay, too.

For fiscal year 2013, its contribution was $140,000. With the expansion, the city estimates it will pay $247,218 in FY 2014.

“Additional funds for Fiscal Year 2014 will need to be identified in the General Fund, Hotel Occupancy Tax Fund and Parking Fund and subsequently budgeted,” the staff note to council members reads.

Other revenue streams for the parent group are the Downtown Alliance and Centro Partnership.

The Downtown Alliance brings in roughly $300,000 annually from membership dues and events.

And Centro Partnership, which raises funds from the private sector, has accumulated between $400,000 and $500,000, according to DiGiovanni.